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Does the Democrat Patrick Leahy understand the 4th Amendment? - Brian - 11-27-2012 06:53 AM
The bill is now finally up for possible vote next week. In the year since the bill was first introduced, there have been some significant revisions. Declan McCullagh at CNet explains:
Leahy's rewritten bill would allow more than 22 agencies -- including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications Commission -- to access Americans' e-mail, Google Docs files, Facebook wall posts, and Twitter direct messages without a search warrant. It also would give the FBI and Homeland Security more authority, in some circumstances, to gain full access to Internet accounts without notifying either the owner or a judge.
http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/20/bill-intended-to-secure-e-mail-privacy-n
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
- batman - 11-27-2012 07:01 AM
From what Ive seen its not so much government takeover as it is the retards making the laws dont understand how computers work and the flow of information.
- massiveplayground077 - 11-27-2012 07:01 AM
I think it's time that we recall that POS libturd. He's going to rape and violate people's rights to privacy.
- Dangerous Mr. - 11-27-2012 07:01 AM
The TSA doesn't either
There is nothing reasonable about thinking that everybody who boards a commercial aircraft is a terrorist
- L1t1g8r - 11-27-2012 07:01 AM
Although our Founding Fathers knew nothing of mechanized transportation, heating and air conditioning, assault rifles, vaccination against disease, equality of the sexes or the races, cyberspace and myriad other things, we are right to strictly interpret their words. A cyberspace search of emails, internet posts and the like are not searches of "persons, houses, papers and effects". It is much like a strict reading of the 2nd Amendment means that the government will have to pry my .50 caliber automatic rifle with armor piercing rounds from my cold dead hands. Why? Cause some 18th century dudes in powdered wigs and knickers said so.